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Title: An Open Window (AOW)
Location:
Global
Categories: Culture
Education
Peace & Conflict
Status:
In Progress
Timeline:
Ongoing
Description:
Magnetic Arts LLC presents AN OPEN WINDOW (AOW), a fun, user-friendly online suite of educational curriculum, geographical and historical trivia, and social networking tools for youth (aged 16-33) on the themes of peacebuilding and conflict resolution . AOW is a three-way collaboration among BeliefNet.com, TakingITGlobal.org, and the Decade to Overcome Violence. Using virtual games, blogs, music, podcasts and videos newly created for the purpose of community-building, the website will enable users of diverse cultures and traditions to be highly individualistic yet share their beliefs and worldviews as well as ideas and solutions for peace.
Background:
An Open Window (AOW) is a comprehensive, interactive educational program that uses information and communication technologies (ICTs), including television and the internet to create an inclusive, ongoing dialogue between youth who live near the monasteries, spiritual buildings and heritage sites featured in the film project SOPHIA: SECRET WISDOM and others around the world on issues of peace and tolerance. The dialogue initiative offers opportunities for people to explore new methods of understanding, to promote religious tolerance and to take concrete steps in their own lives and communities toward global community building. AOW will launch a series screenings and inter-active conversations in partnership with national consulates and staged alongside international conferences, film festivals and policy fora where youth voices often go unheard. Using the full range of virtual technology, these activities will be in multi-lingual formats and mirrored on our three partner sites (BeliefNet.com, TakingITGlobal.org, and the Decade to Overcome Violence).
Objectives:
OBJECTIVE 1: The intention is to encourage a cross-cultural conversation across cultural and national boundaries with youth from different religious ideologies.
OBJECTIVE 2: The attraction for participants to engage in the AOW dialogue is a universal desire for peace combined with the visual representation of complex history and geography that – while often contested or unknown – is held together by common cultural threads.
GOAL: The goal is to foster a deeper understanding and compassion for others utilizing an environment of free speech and fun.
OBJECTIVE 2:
Milestones:
GREECE outreach - July 2006
EGYPT / ROMANIA outreach - January 2007
RUSSIA / UKRAINE outreach - June 2007
WHAT NEXT:
(1) TakingITGlobal Greece, Egypt and Romania chapter members will become involved in the Decade to Overcome Violence and this interaction will be shared with the entire TIG family through the following steps:
a. AOW to feature in the 'Understanding' section and/or be linked from Understanding as a multimedia resources;
b. AOW Greece, Egypt and Romania podcasts to be highlighted as part of Current Event Issue pages;
c. AOW as a "featured theme" showcasing the podcast, as well as other content on the issue, interactive features, ways for our members to get involved in the issue, a spotlight in our newsletter, etc;
d. AOW and TIG ED to create content for a peacebuilding and religion thematic classroom curriculum that includes issues of tolerance, conflict resolution, and youth culture.
(2) Global Youth Action Network members will become involved in the Decade to Overcome Violence locally and throughout the GYAN family.
(3) Media outputs from the dialogue may be streamed on the following platforms – Chat the Planet, www.breakthrough.tv, CurrentTV, www.clearerchannel.org, www.globetrekkertv.com, www.linktv.org, and/or MTVu.
(4) Focus Groups:
a. Dialogue participants (and the media outputs – podcasts, listservs, etc) can network with the Youth Dialogue Project of the Rock Rose Institute’s (www.rockroseinstitute.org) World Forum on Justice, Religion and Conflict Resolution in February 2007 (the YDP focuses on Cyprus, Denmark, New Zealand, South Africa and the US).
b. Peacebuilding and religion curriculum to be tested on focus groups during the ‘Face to Face/Faith to Faith’, multifaith youth leadership program sponsored by Auburn Theological Seminary and Seeking Common Ground. The program consists of a two-week summer intensive in upstate New York (July 1-15) and a yearlong follow up program that they pursue as an extracurricular activity. Students come from Northern Ireland, the Middle East, South Africa and the U.S.
c. The World Council of Churches and its Decade to Overcome Violence (DoV) incorporates interactive, locally-relevant youth dialogue into the 2007 Decade to Overcome Violence meetings in Greece and Romania.
d. Romanian footage to be screened during the Transylvania International Film Festival in Romania and in partnership with the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York City.
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